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HITS AT BOULOGNE

ON RAILWAY STATION & STOREHOUSE DESTRUCTIVE BRITISH BOMBING SEVEN ENEMY FIGHTERS DESTROYED. FIVE BRITISH PLANES LOST. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) RUGBY. June 16. An Air Ministry communique states: “Further reports of the offensive operations carried out late this afternoon show that at Boulogne the railway station and a large storehouse were hit by bombs dropped by Coastal Command aircraft. These bombers wore escorted by squadrons of fighters and a number cf engagements with enemy fighters took place. Two aircraft of the Coastal Command are missing. “In the many combats with enemy fighters which have taken place during extensive operations by the R.A.F.. three of our fighters have been lost, but the pilot of one is safe. Seven enemy fighters have been destroyed.”

TOTAL LOSSES ELEVEN ENEMY MACHINES. SIX BRITISH. WITH TWO PILOTS SAFE. LONDON. June 16. A communique states that a fighter squadron shot down three enemy fighters and a seaplane. Ono British plane was lost, but the pilot is safe. The total enemy air losses in today's operations are eleven aircraft —one seaplane and ten fighters. Two British bombers and four fighters were lost, but the pilots of two are safe.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1941, Page 6

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HITS AT BOULOGNE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1941, Page 6

HITS AT BOULOGNE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1941, Page 6

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